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The World It Was

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An elegiacal collection looks unflinchingly at the degradations of the planet and the human body with an urgent appeal to live fully and presently

Written in the wake of the COVID pandemic lockdown, mass ecological tragedy, a chronic illness diagnosis, and the death of Twichell's husband, The World It Was turns its gaze upon loss with unflinching lucidity. “Language is a door,” Twichell writes—yet she circles that door warily, questioning whether words can ever grant true communion with wha...